US5943101A - Method and circuit arrangement for distinguishing between standard and non-standard CVBS signals - Google Patents

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US5943101A
US5943101A US08/847,029 US84702997A US5943101A US 5943101 A US5943101 A US 5943101A US 84702997 A US84702997 A US 84702997A US 5943101 A US5943101 A US 5943101A
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  • the invention relates to a method and circuit arrangement for distinguishing between standard and non-standard CVBS signals.
  • FIG. 1 shows the typical structure of a TV receiver.
  • the time constant in the sync signal separation SYNCSEP should be switched as a function of the source. For example if the source is a home video recorder, so that a non-standard signal is present, then rapid settling of the PLL is necessary in order to be able to follow the sudden phase changes in the VCR signal. If a standard-conforming signal without any sudden phase changes is involved, a slow time constant is advantageous, since it renders the obtaining of the sync signals insensitive to noise. Furthermore, a comb filter comB which may be present should be disconnected as soon as a video recorder is present at the input, since the comb filter function is ensured only with a standard-conforming signal.
  • ColourPlus processing which yields accurate separation between luminance and chrominance within a PALplus transmission system. This processing also presupposes a standard-conforming signal and must be disconnected as soon as, for example, a video recorder signal is present.
  • the invention is based on the object of specifying a method and circuit arrangement for distinguishing between standard and non-standard CVBS signals. This object is achieved by means of the method specified in claim 1.
  • the invention is based on the further object of specifying a circuit arrangement for applying the method according to the invention. This object is achieved by means of the circuit arrangement specified in claim 6.
  • a further property is revealed when the phase relationship of the colour subcarrier in successive fields is considered.
  • the consideration will be undertaken for 50 Hz PAL systems.
  • the same principle can also be applied to NTSC systems.
  • the colour subcarrier From one line of a first field to a line 312 lines away in the second field, the colour subcarrier experiences a phase shift of approximately 180°, If, for example, the colour subcarrier in line 59 and that in line 371 are added, then they cancel out. If the colour subcarrier which has been obtained from the CVBS signal by a colour subcarrier PLL is sampled with a line-locked clock, then it is cancelled out only when the input signal has standard-conforming coupling between the colour subcarrier frequency and the horizontal frequency. This behaviour can also be used to distinguish between standard and non-standard signals.
  • the inventive method for distinguishing between standard and non-standard CVBS signals consists in using one or more distinguishing criteria which are based on a coupling of the colour subcarrier frequency with the horizontal frequency.
  • the inventive circuit arrangement for distinguishing between standard and non-standard CVBS signals consists in applying one or more distinguishing criteria, which are based on a coupling of the colour subcarrier frequency with the horizontal frequency, in an evaluation logic unit.
  • a first horizontal signal is generated from the television signal by means of a control loop, making use of the coupling of the horizontal frequency and the colour subcarrier frequency, and a second horizontal signal is generated from the television signal using a separation circuit, and the two signals are compared in an evaluation logic unit.
  • an analog-to-digital converter for sampling the colour subcarrier, a memory for storing a test signal, an adder for the addition of the stored test signal and of the test signal of a line of a later field, an absolute value former for forming the absolute value of the aggregate signal, an integrator for cumulation of the absolute values and a threshold value logic unit for comparing the cumulated value with a predetermined threshold value.
  • FIG. 1 shows the receiver-end processing of the signals present in the TV receiver
  • FIG. 2 shows a decision diagram with a changeover between standard and non-standard signals
  • FIG. 3 shows an inventive arrangement for identifying non-standard sources
  • FIG. 4A and 4B show an arrangement for colour subcarrier generation
  • FIG. 5 shows an arrangement for investigating colour subcarrier cancellation.
  • FIG. 2 shows the state diagram for the decision standard signal S or non-standard signal NS. If the current decision is "S", that is to say a standard signal is assumed, then an investigation is carried out to see whether there is a fixed coupling FSCFH between f SC and f H . If this is not the case, the decision is made that a non-standard signal NS is involved. If it has been decided that a non-standard signal is instantaneously present, the colour subcarrier cancellation CCC from one field to the next is investigated. If the colour subcarrier cancels out, a standard signal at the input of the detector is involved.
  • FIG. 3 shows the entire system for identifying standard and non-standard signals.
  • the colour subcarrier fscext is recovered from the television signal CVBS by means of a chrominance PLL CPLL. This is always possible with high stability, even with noisy signals, since a crystal PLL is used for this purpose. Even with video recorders, the colour subcarrier is stable since it is generated with crystal stability in the recorder.
  • the aim of the following circuit is to generate a horizontal signal, making use of the coupling of the horizontal frequency and the colour subcarrier frequency.
  • the oscillator VCO1 Voltage Controlled Oscillator yields a clock of 13.5 MHz. This clock is used to clock a DTO (Discrete Time Oscillator) . The latter generates samples of the colour subcarrier while taking account of the mathematical, theoretical correlation between the line-locked sampling frequency and the colour subcarrier.
  • the circuit illustrated in FIG. 4 is used for this purpose (see BBC Report 2/1986 C. Clarke: "Colour encoding and decoding techniques for line-locked sampled PAL and NTSC television signals").
  • the upper section supplies the phase of a respective sample while the lower section, using a ROM, supplies the correct amplitude value for the phase.
  • the output value of the DTO is converted from digital form to analog form with the aid of a digital-to-analog converter DA and post-filtered with a bandpass filter BP, whose centre frequency is the colour subcarrier frequency fsc, then an analog colour subcarrier is produced.
  • a comparison between the digitally generated colour subcarrier and the colour subcarrier obtained from the input signal by means of the colour subcarrier PLL takes place in a phase comparator COMP1.
  • the control loop is closed by a loop filter.
  • the effect achieved by this control loop is that the externally generated colour subcarrier f SCext is in phase with the internal colour subcarrier f SCint .
  • the clock signal of VCO1 can now be divided by 864 in order to obtain an H-frequency signal H int .
  • a horizontal pulse is obtained from the incoming CVBS signal using a standard separation circuit, which horizontal pulse follows the H pulse of the incoming signal.
  • a slicer with downstream PLL (including VCO2) supplies this H pulse.
  • a line-locked clock f LL2 of 13.5 MHz is also available.
  • the internally generated horizontal pulse H int and the external pulse H ext obtained by H separation are stable relative to one another. These two signals are investigated for stability in an evaluation logic unit. If they drift relative to one another, then it is decided that a non-standard signal is involved.
  • the clock f LL1 cannot then be used as line-locked sampling clock for A/D conversion, since it also drifts relative to the line raster.
  • f LL1 represents a highly stable clock since it is obtained indirectly from a crystal oscillator, the colour subcarrier crystal oscillator.
  • This clock is therefore highly suitable, for example, as a sampling clock in a PALplus system.
  • the ColourPlus method With the ColourPlus method, this system provides a possible way of accurately separating luminance and chrominance. However, a highly stable clock is necessary for this.
  • the clock f LL2 serves, then, as a sampling clock during the detection of a non-standard signal. It is not as stable as f LL1 since it has not been derived from the colour subcarrier. However, f LL2 is always line-locked, even in the event of non-standard signals. If the colour subcarrier f SCext is then sampled using this clock, it is possible to investigate this signal to see whether the colour subcarrier cancels out from one line of the first field to the corresponding line of the second field.
  • the corresponding circuit is illustrated in FIG. 5.
  • the colour subcarrier is sampled by the analog-to-digital converter AD using f LL2 and a test signal thereof is stored in a memory MEM.
  • the test signal may involve parts of a line. The larger the test signal is, the more sensitive the detection is.
  • the stored test signal and the test signal of the line of the incoming field are added with the aid of an adder ADD.
  • the absolute value is formed from the result of the summation in ABS and this absolute value is cumulated for the duration of the test signal with the aid of an integrator INT.
  • a check is then made in a threshold value logic unit LOG2 to see whether the result falls below a predetermined threshold value for the duration of a plurality of pictures. If this is the case, then it is assumed that a standard signal is involved. In response, the above-described non-standard detection is again put into operation and the line-locked sampling clock based on the colour subcarrier is obtained.
  • the invention can be utilized, for example, for devices for receiving PALplus signals, such as television sets, video recorders or multimedia devices, and alternatively for devices for receiving colour television signals according to a further development of other colour television systems such as, for example, NTSC.

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